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Subject:Re: Space, the final frontier From:Kat Nagel/MasterWork <katnagel -at- EZNET -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:13:26 -0500
Kevin Montgomery, Happy Camper:
> My working environment is probably the biggest reason I still work where I
> do. I have a private 12' x 18' office. The 12' window at my right shoulder
> gives a sixth-floor view to the north over UC San Diego and east to
> Palomar Mountain. At least four kinds of hawks soar over the fields below
> or ride the office building's wake. It's very quiet unless I choose to
> play the radio softly. My SMEs are in similar offices along the hall on
> both sides of me. Coffee and a refrigerator are twenty feet from my door.
> I have a small printer in my office and a production printer twenty feet
> away. Phone is at my right hand, pictures of kids are scattered over my
> desk and the big worktable, Guatemalan weaving hangs on the wall, and a
> cardboard cutout of Bill Clinton stands in the corner.
<sigh>
Now -that- sounds like a company that truly values its writers!
Congratulations on finding (and keeping) a corporate heaven!
@Kat
Kat Nagel MasterWork Consulting Services, Rochester, NY
Technical writing--Editing--Documentation & website planning
katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net http://members.aol.com/mwrk/
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